Next month the Gulf Coast Waterkeepers will be releasing a state of the gulf report. Besides updating everyone on what has happened since the Macondo well was capped and the media disappeared, we will also release a summary of tissue, sediment, and water samples from Louisiana to Florida. These samples were taken by four different Waterkeeper organizations. It's been a busy year for everyone, including your Waterkeepers. Stayed tuned as more news comes out on this exciting first ever Save Our Gulf: State of the Gulf.

Mobile Baykeeper responds to environmental concerns in the Mobile Bay Watershed in a number of ways, but one of the most important things that we do is respond to “Member Concerns”. These concerns from our members and our community are the crux of our work. They guide the issues we work on and the projects we pursue. The most obvious of these is last summer’s oil disaster. We received thousands of calls in response to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the concerns our community had about oil washing ashore in Alabama.

This blog was written by John Amos at SkyTruth. SkyTruth is a founding member of the Gulf Monitoring Consortium along with SouthWings and Waterkeeper Alliance. On April 19, 2011, SkyTruth, SouthWings, and Waterkeeper Alliance launched the Gulf Monitoring Consortium: an innovative partnership that is systematically monitoring oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico with satellite images and mapping, aerial reconnaissance and photography, and on-the-water observation and sampling.

This blog was written by Paul Orr, the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper. What Paul experienced yesterday isn't directly related to the BP oil disaster, but it does explain the need for full restoration of the Gulf Coast. We hear at every restoration meeting that full restoration must take in account that the Gulf Coast has been been an industry dumping ground for decades. Restoration must be about creating sustainable and resilient communities, not just repairing the damage made by one oil disaster.